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One-to-one: supporting artist-visitor dialogue

silviaf — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:40:05 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

One-to-one: supporting artist-visitor dialogue

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kiosk

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website

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dialogue

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video

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artist

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twitter

Abstract:

Artists have been using the Internet since the early days of the Web, but no-one has done anything quite like Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who uses technology, Twitter in particular, as a way of sharing his artistic and political life with people all around the world.

Alongside his Unilever Series installation at Tate Modern, which opens October 12th 2010, the Turbine Hall has also been transformed into a hub of global conversation. Here, next to the artwork, a series of booths have been installed where the artist asks visitors to record a video, either asking him a question or answering one of his questions. These videos are then published on a dedicated website for all to see and to also engage those not able to visit in person. Each week until May 2011, Ai Weiwei is selecting videos to respond to and posting his video or text responses on the website, thus creating a joyful, worldwide dialogue between the artist and the visitors. People outside the museum can also join in the conversation via Twitter. Ai Weiwei will be monitoring and replying to postings with the hashtag #tateaww.

In this paper, we will describe in detail the principles, philosophy and technology behind the One-to-One with the artist project. Recent advances in the technology made it possible to realize the project’s ambitions in under eight weeks. We will also report on the effective usage of the kiosks and website by both the visitors and the artist, the challenges encountered in the development and implementation process, as well as the results of the evaluation that will be carried out in the upcoming months.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

User-Generated Community

Authors:

Silvia Filippini Fantoni

Kirstie Beaven

Ben Rubinstein

Taking the Museum to the Streets

Jakob Ingemann Parby — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:49:14 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Taking the Museum to the Streets

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User-involvement

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urban identity

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multi-touch

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cultural heritage

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democracy

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dialogue

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interactive

Abstract:

In a digitalised and globalised world, what are the challenges the museum faces when users increasingly experience knowledge as something created through blogs, wikis and other social platforms? In which the museum collections no longer hold the absolute truth, but rather layers of collected knowledge to be interpreted and augmented through interpretation and adaptation by guests and other voices? This workshop will look at some of the practical, epistemological and technical approaches to the challenges based on specific case material.

In April 2010 the Museum of Copenhagen, in cooperation with Gibson Group Ltd and Spild af Tid/Waste of Time, launched a giant multi-touch multimedia installation in one of the central squares in Copenhagen. In the first half year of its 14 hour a day functioning, The WALL, as it is called, has attracted more than 400,000 users, who have viewed more than 2,000,000 images, sent more than 60,000 personal postcards, and maybe most importantly, uploaded 2,500 new contributions of their own. Semi-mobile, The WALL will be moved around Copenhagen over the coming four years. It gives Copenhageners street access to a poetic cityscape of images and knowledge about their city, and offers a platform for all citizens and guests of the city to interact with and discuss the past, present and future of the city. In parallel to the multi-touch installation experienced in the streets, a website connects The WALL, its multimedia database and the museum. Both the website and The WALL support the museum's new profile of having the city as its prime object and being fully embedded in the city.

See a 5 minute documentary on the project: http://tinyurl.com/24h65ya

The workshop will allow participants to get inside the project and discuss the challenges and lessons of this pioneering work, while exploring hands-on the unique user interface on a cut-down version of The WALL – including a year’s worth of user contributions.

In this way the workshop will investigate:

practical and technical challenges concerning the development of a mobile, multi-touch, user-involving installation, outdoors in the city space
hands-on use of the “2D/3D cityscape editor” software that creates the cultural topographies of The WALL
the conceptual and epistemological considerations and choices underlying these topographies
achievements and lessons from the first year of operation – how do reception, use and interaction correspond with the original intentions we had in the development phase, what are the differences and how can they be explained? Are there things we would have done differently?
Does the Wall create a new agenda for future museum practices and for the relationship between cities, citizens and their museums?

Participants are invited to present examples of their own experiences with multi-user and user-generated content installations, and to reflect on their experiences with operating these in a non-regulated milieu.

Type:

Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches

Mini-Workshop on Outdoor, Museum Interactions

Site:

http://www.vaeggen.copenhagen.dk

Authors:

Jette Sandahl

Jakob Parby

Allan Smith

Jakob Thorbek

Lotte Kryger Broe

Clearing the Path for Sisyphus: How Social Media is Changing Our Jobs and Our Working Relationships

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:43 +0000

Gates, J. (2010). Clearing the Path for Sisyphus: How Social Media is Changing Our Jobs and Our Working Relationships. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.